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Commercially available native plant species suitable for planned landscapes in Florida. Visit our Suppliers Directory to locate businesses that sell native plants or seeds or provide professional landscape or consulting services in this state. Visit the Organizations Directory to locate native plant societies, conservation groups, governmental agencies, botanical gardens, arboreta, and other plant-related organizations in this state. Special thanks to the Association of Florida Native Nurseries for compiling this list.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acacia farnesiana | Huisache Sweet acacia Mealy wattle | |
| Achillea millefolium | Common yarrow Yarrow Milfoil Western yarrow | |
| Acer negundo | Ash-leaf maple Ash-leaved maple Box elder Boxelder Fresno de guajuco | |
| Acer rubrum | Red maple Scarlet maple | |
| Acer saccharinum | Silver maple Soft maple White maple | |
| Acoelorraphe wrightii | Everglades palm | |
| Adiantum capillus-veneris | Southern maidenhair fern Common maidenhair fern Maidenhair fern Venus hair fern | |
| Aesculus pavia | Scarlet Buckeye Red buckeye Firecracker plant | |
| Ageratina jucunda | Hammock snakeroot | |
| Agarista populifolia | Florida hobblebush Tall fetterbush Florida leucothoe Agarista | |
| Allium canadense var. canadense | Canada onion Meadow garlic Wild onion | |
| Allium canadense var. mobilense | Meadow garlic Wild onion | |
| Aletris farinosa | White colicroot Colic root Unicorn root | |
| Aletris lutea | Yellow colicroot Yellow Colic-root | |
| Alternanthera maritima | Seaside joyweed | |
| Alnus serrulata | Hazel alder Brookside alder Tag alder Common alder | |
| Amelanchier arborea | Common serviceberry Downy serviceberry Shadbush Juneberry | |
| Amsonia ciliata | Fringed bluestar Bluestar Blue funnel lily Texas bluestar | |
| Amorpha fruticosa | Indigo bush False indigo bush False indigo Desert false indigo | |
| Amorpha herbacea | Clusterspike false indigo Cluster-spike Indigobush | |
| Ambrosia hispida | Coastal ragweed Beach Ragweed Bay Geranium | |
| Amsonia tabernaemontana | Eastern bluestar Blue dogbane Willow amsonia Woodland bluestar | |
| Anemone berlandieri | Tenpetal thimbleweed Ten-petaled anemone Wind-flower | |
| Andropogon brachystachyus | Shortspike bluestem | |
| Andropogon gerardii | Big bluestem Turkeyfoot | |
| Annona glabra | Pond apple | |
| Andropogon glomeratus var. hirsutior | Bushy bluestem | |
| Andropogon ternarius | Splitbeard bluestem | |
| Andropogon virginicus var. decipiens | Broomsedge bluestem | |
| Apios americana | Groundnut Wild potato Indian potato | |
| Aquilegia canadensis | Eastern red columbine Wild red columbine | |
| Arisaema dracontium | Green dragon Dragonroot Greendragon | |
| Arnoglossum ovatum | Ovateleaf cacalia | |
| Aristida purpurascens var. tenuispica | Arrowfeather threeawn Hillsboro Threeawn Hillsborough Threeawn | |
| Aralia spinosa | Devil's walkingstick Devil’s walking-stick Prickly Ash Hercules club Angelica tree | |
| Aristolochia tomentosa | Woolly dutchman's pipe Common dutchmanspipe | |
| Arisaema triphyllum | Jack in the pulpit Indian jack in the pulpit Jack-in-the-pulpit | |
| Asimina angustifolia | Slimleaf pawpaw | |
| Asclepias humistrata | Pinewoods milkweed Sandhill milkweed | |
| Asclepias incarnata | Swamp milkweed Pink Milkweed | |
| Asclepias lanceolata | Fewflower milkweed Few-flower milkweed Red milkweed | |
| Asimina obovata | Bigflower pawpaw Florida dogwood Scrub Pawpaw Flag pawpaw | |
| Asimina parviflora | Smallflower pawpaw Small-flower pawpaw Dwarf pawpaw | |
| Asclepias perennis | Aquatic milkweed | |
| Asimina reticulata | Netted pawpaw Woolly pawpaw Hairy pawpaw | |
| Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common paw paw Indian banana | |
| Asclepias tuberosa | Butterflyweed Butterfly milkweed Orange milkweed Pleurisy root | |
| Asclepias verticillata | Whorled milkweed Eastern whorled milkweed | |
| Athyrium filix-femina | Common ladyfern Lady fern Ladyfern Subarctic lady fern | |
| Avicennia germinans | Black mangrove | |
| Baptisia alba | White wild indigo | |
| Balduina angustifolia | Coastal plain honeycombhead Yellow buttons | |
| Baccharis halimifolia | Groundseltree Sea-myrtle Consumptionweed Eastern baccharis Groundsel Groundsel bush Salt marsh-elder Salt bush Florida groundsel bush | |
| Baptisia lanceolata | Gopherweed Pineland baptisia | |
| Batis maritima | Seaside saltwort Turtleweed | |
| Bacopa monnieri | Coastal Water-hyssop Herb-of-grace Water hyssop | |
| Betula nigra | River birch Red birch | |
| Bejaria racemosa | Tarflower Flyweed Flycatcher | |
| Berlandiera subacaulis | Florida greeneyes Common Greeneyes | |
| Bignonia capreolata | Crossvine | |
| Bidens laevis | Smooth beggartick Smooth bidens Smooth bur marigold Larger bur marigold | |
| Blutaparon vermiculare | Silverhead | |
| Boltonia asteroides | Boltonia White doll's daisy | |
| Boehmeria cylindrica | Smallspike false nettle Bog Hemp | |
| Borrichia frutescens | Bushy seaside tansy Bushy seaside-tansy Ox-eye daisy Sea daisy Sea ox-eye | |
| Bouteloua hirsuta | Hairy grama | |
| Bursera simaruba | Gumbo limbo Gumbo-limbo | |
| Byrsonima lucida | Locust Berry Long Key locustberry | |
| Carya alba | Mockernut hickory Big bud hickory | |
| Callicarpa americana | American beautyberry French mulberry | |
| Capsicum annuum | Chile pequin Chile petin Bird pepper Turkey pepper Cayenne pepper | |
| Carya aquatica | Water hickory Bitter pecan | |
| Catalpa bignonioides | Southern catalpa Cigar tree Indian bean | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam Blue beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Capparis cynophallophora | Jamaica Caper Tree Jamaican caper | |
| Castanea dentata | American chestnut | |
| Cakile edentula | American searocket | |
| Canna flaccida | Bandanna of the Everglades Golden canna | |
| Calycanthus floridus | Eastern sweetshrub Carolina allspice Sweet shrub | |
| Carya glabra | Pignut hickory | |
| Cakile lanceolata | Coastal searocket | |
| Callirhoe papaver | Woodland Poppy-mallow Woodland poppymallow | |
| Castanea pumila | Chinkapin Allegheny chinquapin Allegheny-chinkapin Chinquapin | |
| Campsis radicans | Trumpet creeper Trumpet vine Common trumpet creeper Cow vine | |
| Ceanothus americanus | New Jersey tea Redroot | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud Redbud | |
| Ceratiola ericoides | Sand heath Sandhill rosemary | |
| Celtis laevigata | Sugar hackberry Hackberry Sugarberry Texas sugarberry Palo blanco | |
| Celtis occidentalis | Common hackberry Nettle tree | |
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Common buttonbush Buttonbush Button willow | |
| Chiococca alba | West Indian milkberry David’s milkberry Cahinca Snowberry | |
| Chamaecrista fasciculata | Partridge pea Sleepingplant Sensitive plant | |
| Chrysobalanus icaco | Icaco coco plum Icaco coco-plum | |
| Chasmanthium latifolium | Inland sea oats Indian wood oats Wild oats River oats Flathead oats Upland Oats Upland Sea Oats | |
| Chrysopsis mariana | Maryland goldenaster Maryland golden-aster | |
| Chamaecrista nictitans ssp. nictitans | Partridge pea Sensitive partridge pea | |
| Chrysophyllum oliviforme | Satinleaf | |
| Chamaecyparis thyoides | Atlantic white cedar Atlantic white-cedar | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White fringetree Fringe tree Grancy Graybeard | |
| Cirsium horridulum | Yellow thistle | |
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